Morbius
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Morbius (2022)

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5.3
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 232,688 votes
5.8/10 52,921 votes Synced 2026-08-03
5.1/10 173,929 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 5.9/10 856 votes Synced 2026-07-21
Critics 3.5/10 Synced 2026-07-21
Audience 7.1/10 Synced 2026-07-21
Critics 1.5/10 Synced 2026-07-21
5.9/10 4,982 votes Synced 2026-09-11

External reviews

Benjamin Franz · Film Threat 80.00/100.00

Seek this out if you like superhero films that are especially dark.

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Bilge Ebiri · New York Magazine (Vulture) 70.00/100.00

Freed from the shackles of elaborate world-building or jokey, family-friendly tentpole-dom, this is a tight, brisk little over-the-top thriller, with plenty of atmosphere, effective jump scares, and a couple of genuinely moving performances at its heart.

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Manohla Dargis · The New York Times 70.00/100.00

Morbius is a ghoulish, suitably downbeat tale of madness, hubris, suffering and weird science set in a world that offers little solace. And while most of it is as predictably familiar as expected, it does something unusual for a movie like this: It entertains you, rather than bludgeons you into submission.

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Jim Slotek · Original-Cin 58.00/100.00

You do get the sense that Swedish director Daniel Espinosa really wanted to make a horror film instead of the usual super-hero origin-story-punctuated-by-carnage.

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Tim Grierson · Screen Daily 70.00/100.00

This horror-action picture offers modest genre pleasures and a consistently spooky vibe, resulting in a film that has been designed chiefly to ensure future sequels, although the story includes enough emotional shading and robust set pieces to be an engaging standalone feature.

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Jesse Hassenger · Paste Magazine 59.00/100.00

Yet there’s some kind of invisible force here, hurrying things along in the hopes of a future team-up, making sure this feature film arrives more undead than alive.

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Richard Lawson · Vanity Fair 70.00/100.00

The curious fun of Daniel Espinosa’s film is in how it embraces the gothic mythology that inspired it. Morbius does eventually become a cluttered slugfest, as all things must. But for much of its run it is a stylish, intriguingly toned story of a man trying to thwart mortality.

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Leah Greenblatt · Entertainment Weekly 75.00/100.00

Swedish-Chilean director Daniel Espinosa (Life) gives it all a dark sheen, and shoots the pair's inevitable confrontations less like traditional comic-book clashes than something from The Matrix.

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Mick LaSalle · San Francisco Chronicle 75.00/100.00

Against all odds, Morbius is an intelligent, human story.

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Liz Shannon Miller · Consequence 58.00/100.00

Morbius, at best, will be remembered as the latest effort on Sony's part to make its nascent Sinister Six franchise happen. And, like "fetch," it's hard to see that happening.

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